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Law Practice,
Education Law

Jun. 26, 2019

Confused in the courtroom

Math skills are disappearing from the legal profession

Ashley Lipson

Professor of Law
University of La Verne

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You may not want to hear about the rapidly declining math, physics and accounting skills among law students and lawyers, or how clients have been shortchanged and misled under the noses of their own clueless attorneys. And you're probably even less eager to be reminded that, unbeknownst to math-dodging law students, numbers are basically what lawyering is all about. So, to make this read more readable, here's a promise to reveal one common misconception that provides ...

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